Tag Archives: Lync 2013

Recently I have started carrying out my Lync 2013 installs on to Windows Server 2012 R2 and have noticed a strange issue from time to time.
When I open the Lync Management Shell (PowerShell) from the start menu, the command window opens but I never get a prompt displayed, it just sits there as a blank window,...

When I have been deploying Lync on to existing domains that use an internal DNS name that is not verifiable on the internet I have been receiving the following error when I run an internally trusted certificate on all Lync internal services and an externally trusted one on the external services.
[error]Error from LS Data MCU; Event ID:...

Hi All,
I've been doing quite a lot of lab work on Azure with Lync 2013 recently (even though it isn't officially supported) and ran into this error this morning.
I was trying to add resiliency to a Standard Edition pool, which required amending the SQL Express database on my backup pool server.
No matter how many times...

So we have our new Lync 2013 deployment configured and we have done the initial integration with Exchange 2013 to allow us to use the Unified Contacts Store (UCS) and the various archiving options (see my previous article). We now need to move on to setting up Lync 2013 voicemail...

So your making use of all those new products, Lync 2013, Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013 but now comes the task of Lync 2013 integration. So lets make a start and configure the basics so that Lync 2013 can use Exchange 2013 for Archiving and Contact Storage (UCS).

Pre-requisites

Lab Setup

The long awaited Lync 2013 clients for iOS and Windows Phone, that were announced at the recent Lync Conference have been released allowing you to make full Lync VoIP and video calls from your mobile.
Some noteworthy features include: